Same here. Always driven hard at 17-20 psi. Still holding strong. Why do you think the alpina flash is all we'll get?

so you guys both have level 10 upgraded parts, no issues, only other person I know that did it was LostMarine and he never got the chance to push it. Anyone else who has had it done? Who has had failures? Everytime I bring it up people tell me it's not proven and what not, but the only people I know that have actually had it done have no issues?
@enrita @LostMarine @jzeee037

Its a lot of money for a unproven upgrade. Its the only upgrade I know of but I'm not sure if hybrid turbos make enough power to test its limits. It took a little time to adapt when first installed but since then its been fine. Not sure how it would hold up to a big single or twins but ill find out soon enough as ill prob. go with vargas stage3 . I'm just watching how things go with all the new options out there now.

Following all the AT threads here I am getting the impression that, as insane as it sounds, designing a TCM from scratch may not be too big of a deal, at least not on the hardware side, compared to getting the original firmware decrypted and messed with. Most of the trouble would be associated with knowing exactly what the original TCM does as well as have a full well documented CAN message set. None the less, that would be quite an undertaking with lots of trial and error... I believe I've read that someone did this as a hobby project for an older 4 speed ZF transmission which is obviously easier and cheaper...

Following all the AT threads here I am getting the impression that, as insane as it sounds, designing a TCM from scratch may not be too big of a deal, at least not on the hardware side, compared to getting the original firmware decrypted and messed with. Most of the trouble would be associated with knowing exactly what the original TCM does as well as have a full well documented CAN message set. None the less, that would be quite an undertaking with lots of trial and error... I believe I've read that someone did this as a hobby project for an older 4 speed ZF transmission which is obviously easier and cheaper...

I've considered this as well. I just don't have the free time to pull something like that off right now. I think the hardest part would be getting the TCM to play nice with the rest of the car.

I've considered this as well. I just don't have the free time to pull something like that off right now. I think the hardest part would be getting the TCM to play nice with the rest of the car.

Similar situation here. I could find some time to design and build it, but I don't really have the resources or the time to figure out the CAN message set and experiment as I am not in the car industry particularly...

The DME code was cracked by the original creator of openflash. (Before Shiv got involved, before it was openflash) It was hinted that he may of used the fruity supercomputer from his workplace. Cobb also managed to crack it as well, so this can't be an unattainable goal.

The DME code was cracked by the original creator of openflash. (Before Shiv got involved, before it was openflash) It was hinted that he may of used the fruity supercomputer from his workplace. Cobb also managed to crack it as well, so this can't be an unattainable goal.

Defeating modern encryption by brute force is not that easy, especially if it happens to be 128 bit and above with a good cypher. I would rather believe that someone in the proper position leaked the encryption key for whatever his reasons. Of course I doubt the person will go forward and say "I did it". I would not say it's impossible as that would be just stupid - sometimes the cypher isn't good enough and the encryption is in fact shorter with some bit padding. Oh well, it really comes down to what you'd like to believe I guess

Defeating modern encryption by brute force is not that easy, especially if it happens to be 128 bit and above with a good cypher. I would rather believe that someone in the proper position leaked the encryption key for whatever his reasons. Of course I doubt the person will go forward and say "I did it". I would not say it's impossible as that would be just stupid - sometimes the cypher isn't good enough and the encryption is in fact shorter with some bit padding. Oh well, it really comes down to what you'd like to believe I guess

Well maybe I shouldn't have been as cryptic in my first post. When I said Fruity supercomputer that was a reference to the fact that he works at Apple. He infers that he used the Apple supercomputer in Cupertino. *If* he had access to said computer it would make very short work of 128bit encryption. Any of us could break 128bit encryption with a botnet, its all about distributed computing now that everyone had broadband.

Well maybe I shouldn't have been as cryptic in my first post. When I said Fruity supercomputer that was a reference to the fact that he works at Apple. He infers that he used the Apple supercomputer in Cupertino. *If* he had access to said computer it would make very short work of 128bit encryption. Any of us could break 128bit encryption with a botnet, its all about distributed computing now that everyone had broadband.

Word on the street is the firmware files are RSA encrypted with 1024 bit keys.

Well maybe I shouldn't have been as cryptic in my first post. When I said Fruity supercomputer that was a reference to the fact that he works at Apple. He infers that he used the Apple supercomputer in Cupertino. *If* he had access to said computer it would make very short work of 128bit encryption. Any of us could break 128bit encryption with a botnet, its all about distributed computing now that everyone had broadband.

The problem with this though, is that the MSD80 is protected by 1024 bit RSA, not 128-bit. You literally could not break this - even with 100s of supercomputers/botnets/etc. in our lifetime. I have a feeling the key was "given" out - I wonder how Dinan does it - they must have a relationship with BMW?

No chance that was brute forced - especially if it truly is 1024-bit RSA like it's spec'ed at.